unin 14 Roots-Lesson 53
Step 7 Story telling
SB Page 10, Part 2. Allow the Ss some time tolook at the pictures and construct the story in their own words. With a weak class, the following cue words may be given on the Bb.
1 Kunta Kinte / born in Gambia / a free and strong man / fond of music;
2 one day / Kunta / cut a tree in a forest near the coast / make a drum / hit on the head;
3 Kunta Kinte / wake up / caught by some black men / reason with them / sent to a castle on the coast;
4 a few days later / taken and put on a tall sailing ship / in chains / unable to / stand up / the sea journey / 60 days and nights;
5 the ship / arrive in a port in America / see in daylight / a third of the black people missing;
6 at a market / Kunta and some other Africans /sold to farmers / work in the fields / badly treated / try to run away / cut off part of his foot.
Get the Ss to tell the story in groups first. Then call out some of them to describe the pictures in class. Either the present tense or the past tense, can be used when telling the story, but it should be consistent.
Step 8 Interview
SB Page 10, Part 3. Get Ss to prepare their questions in pairs, then check these with the whole class. If necessary, using the following as hints：
How / first / learn / about your African ancestor?
Where / ancestor / come from?
Why / interested / in your “roots”?
What / you do / to find out more?
Why / you go / to Gambia?
How / get enough money / go to Gambia?
What / you discover / when / get to Gambia?
How / find out / about Kunta's disappearance?
Then get Ss to work in pairs and do the role play.
Get them to change roles and do it again. If you wish, you can get one or two pairs to act out the interview in front of the class.
Step 9 Workbook
Wb Lesson 54, Ex. 3.
Let the Ss go over the sentences and the answers.
They should do the exercise independently. Then check the answers with the whole class.
Homework
Read the passage again.
Finish off the Workbook exercises.
Lesson54 教学设计方案
------把54课当作听力课
Step I: Listen for the first time and answer:
1. What did he find when he travelled around the USA?
2. Why did he go to Africa?
3. In most parts of Africa, how did people keep the record of the family history?
Step II:Listen for the second time and answer:
1. Kunta Kinte travelled into the forest alone _D___.
A. to hunt animals and gather some food
B. to help the white men catch the black men
C. to work in the fields
D. to cut down a tree to make a drum
2. When Alex Haley became a writer he decided to___B_____.
A. travel around the USA
B. look for information about his ancestors
C. find out the word for “root” in his own language
D. find out who had caught his ancestor as a slave
3. Alex Haley did NOT find out ___C____ until he came to Gambia.
A. where his ancestors died and were buried
B. how many children his ancestors had had
C. which part of Africa his ancestor had come from
D. what the words for “river” and “guitar” meant
4. Alex Haley’s “roots” were ___B_____.
A. in the east of Africa
B. in the west of Africa
C. in the east of Gambia
D. in the west of Gambia
5. Which of the following statements is WRONG? [D]
A. Gambia is a small country on the west coast of Africa.
B. most of the people in Gambia can read and write.
C. In most parts of Africa stories are passed on by word of mouth.
D. Haley was financially supported by his boss, who shared the same family name — Kinte.
StepIII.Listen to the last paragraph and fill in blanks.
Paragraph7:
One day, a young man named Kunta Kinte went off into the forest to cut down a tree as he wanted to make a drum. He was never seen again. Haley jumped up and cried, “That was my ancestor”.He had found his family,and his “roots” at last!
StepIV.Reading comprehension:
France, England and Spain were the three European powers in the New World. Each had come for different purposes.
The first Spanish came to the New World searching for wealth, power, and glory. In their search they explored(探验) and conquered much of North, South, and Central America. The English, on the other hand, generally came to build new lives in the new land. They built settlements(殖民地) along the coast.
Different from both Spain and English, the French were less interested in conquest(征服) than in trade. Their first settlements were trading posts(贸易区) where they sold cloth, knives, and guns to the Indians for the skin of the beaver (河狸). Like the Spanish, they seldom brought their families. Unlike the English, they didn’t fight against the Indians for the possession of the land.
Because there were far fewer French than English in America, they did not Threatened(威胁) the Indian way of life as the English did.
1. “The New World” refers to ________.
A. Europe B. India C. Africa D. America
2. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The first Spanish explored much of North America.
B. The first Spanish explored much of South America.
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